There were 277 multiracial students enrolled in Barron County schools in 2022-23 school year

WI Superintendent of Public Instruction Jill Underly 2023 | Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction

By Chippewa Valley Times

Nov 16, 2023

There were 277 multiracial students enrolled in Barron County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 16.9% more than the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction report.

Data showed that Barron County welcomed 7,444 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, multiracial students comprised 3.7% of the student body to be the third most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 36 schools in Barron County, Rice Lake Middle School recorded the highest enrollment of multiracial students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 36 students.

According to the Nation’s Report Card 2022 results, Black fourth-graders in Wisconsin scored an average of 40 points lower than their white colleagues in both Math and Reading.

Data also showed that Black students were three times as likely to fail the Reading test than white pupils in the state. The gap is even larger in Mathematics, with Black students failing five times more than white students.

Ethnicities in Barron County in 2022-23 School Year

Enrollment in Barron County Schools During 2022-23 School Year

School name	% of multiracial students enrollment	Total Enrollment
Advanced Learning Academy of Wisconsin	11.4%	35
Barron Area Montessori School	2.3%	44
Barron High School	4.8%	316
Cameron Academy of Virtual Education	1.7%	115
Cameron Elementary School	3.6%	422
Cameron High School	3.3%	276
Cameron Middle School	3.3%	330
Chetek-Weyerhaeuser High School	3.3%	243
Chetek-Weyerhaeuser Middle School	2.4%	207
Chetek-Weyerhaeuser Roselawn Elementary School	3.6%	477
Cumberland Elementary School	3.3%	359
Cumberland High School	1.3%	299
Cumberland Middle School	1.5%	276
Hilltop Day Care and Preschool	4.6%	22
Hilltop Elementary School	2.3%	262
Island City Virtual Academy	3.7%	54
Link2Learn Virtual Charter School	4%	25
New Auburn Elementary School	8.5%	130
New Auburn High School	2.1%	96
New Auburn Middle School	4.2%	72
Prairie Farm Elementary School	2.5%	163
Prairie Farm High School	0.8%	125
Prairie Farm Middle School	1.1%	90
Rice Lake High School	3.6%	714
Rice Lake Middle School	6%	601
Riverview Middle School	3.8%	317
Tainter Elementary School	4.4%	481
Turtle Lake Elementary School	6.8%	235
Turtle Lake High School	4.2%	119
Turtle Lake Middle School	3.9%	103
Woodland Elementary School	5.7%	317